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On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 05:23:58PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked: |
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> On Tuesday 04 November 2008 16:16:30 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: |
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> > collision-protect seems nice, but I don't know about its drawbacks (if |
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> > any), and since it seems not to be default and I don't have good |
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> > knowledge of it, I didn't change the default. |
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> You probably want this enabled. I think it's disabled by default because new |
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> users will have no idea whatsoever what to do about it. All it does is check |
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> the files it wants to install with what's on the disk. If there's a match, |
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> the existing files must only have been put there by the same package |
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> (ignoring version numbers). |
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> If there's a collision, you get a huge big fat error message and a chance to |
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> find out why two different packages install the same file. Maybe you need to |
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> uninstall one, maybe it doesn't matter. If it's the latter, just |
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> FEATURES="-collision-protect" emerge <package> |
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> and continue as normal. In any event, you get to decide what should happen. |
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> Every experienced gentoo user should be using this imho |
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On my version of portage (2.2_rc13; but I am pretty sure this is the |
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case for some older ones too), there is the default feature |
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"protect-owned" which provides more or less the same function as |
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collision-protect but is slightly smarter. See 'man make.conf' for |
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details. |
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W |
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Don't tell anyone, but duct tape is The Force. It has a dark |
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side, and a light side, and it binds the Universe together. |
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